Patents by Inventor Byeong-Gyu Kang

Byeong-Gyu Kang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7934389
    Abstract: An ice tray assembly for a refrigerator is provided, which includes a case; at least one ice tray disposed in the case; a water box provided at a lateral surface of the ice trays to supply water to the ice trays; and at least one discharge hole provided at the water box corresponding to the number of the ice trays. According to the present invention, the ice tray assembly for the refrigerator is capable of supplying water to the plurality of ice trays at once, of easily supplying water to the ice trays disposed at an upper layer portion in general, as the water box is disposed at the lateral surface of the ice trays, and of uniformly supplying water to each of the plurality of the ice trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong-Seok Yoon, Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee
  • Publication number: 20110023530
    Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator having a drawer cover, in which a drawer cover is disposed above a drawer accommodated inside a cooling chamber so as to be slidable in front and rear directions, and a pressurizing unit is disposed for pressurizing the drawer and the drawer cover so as to closely contact each other when the drawer is accommodated, thereby preventing moisture evaporation from food stored in the drawer, thus to keep food inside the drawer in a fresh condition for a longer period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Jong-Wook An, Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee
  • Publication number: 20110016907
    Abstract: The embodiment proposes a refrigerator. A refrigerator of the embodiment includes a cabinet in which a storage chamber is formed; a door that is connected to the cabinet and opens and closes the storage chamber; and a door opening apparatus that is provided in the cabinet and opens the doors, wherein the door opening apparatus includes: a push member that contacts the rear surface of the door and pushes the rear surface of the door by a rotation operation and a driver that is connected to the push member and generates power for moving the push member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong Gyu KANG, Jeong Ho SHIN, Myung Hwan KIM, Sang Bum HA
  • Publication number: 20110016905
    Abstract: An ice-making assembly for a refrigerator is provided. The ice-making assembly includes a tray for making ice, a handling member for rotating the tray, a first rotation member rotatable with the handling member, a second rotation member rotating the tray, and a transmission member for transmitting rotation of the first rotation member to the second rotation member. An end of the transmission member is fixed to first rotation member, and the other end of the transmission member is fixed to the second rotation member. A force is transmitted from the handling member (a lever) to the tray through the transmission member, which has a strip shape and is coupled to or wound around the rotation member. Therefore, freezing between the transmission member and the rotation member can be minimized, and the lever can be smoothly handled. Thus, a force applied to the lever can be smoothly transmitted to the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Sang-Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20110005262
    Abstract: A refrigerator comprises: an opening disposed at one side of a door; an ice bank disposed on a rear surface of the door, and configured to be drawn out through the opening, for storing ice pieces; a guide unit for guiding the ice bank to be drawn out; and a volume control unit for changing a volume of the ice bank step by step. A volume of the ice bank is varied according to users necessity. This solves a users inconvenience to make ice pieces a plurality of times, for example, in summer when a large amount of ice pieces are required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Sang-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 7841203
    Abstract: An ice tray assembly and refrigerator having the same are disclosed, by which pieces of ice stored in a plurality of ice trays can be simultaneously discharged by a single motion without interfering with each other. The present invention includes a plurality of ice trays vertically provided within a case, a plurality of the ice trays connected to one another by an interoperating means to be simultaneously rotated and a driving means for rotating a plurality of the ice trays by being connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Seok Yoon, Byeong Gyu Kang, Jae Youl Lee
  • Publication number: 20100257888
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ice making apparatus for a refrigerator, the apparatus comprising a frame having an accommodating space therein, and at least an ice tray detachably installed in the frame and configured to provide a space for containing water to make ice, whereby the ice making apparatus can be easily cleaned up and ice can be easily handled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Sang-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 7810344
    Abstract: Disclosed are a water tank and a refrigerator having the same. The water tank includes a tank main body provided with a water storage space formed therein and a discharge hole; a tank cover connected to the tank main body for opening and closing the water storage space; a valve movably installed in the tank main body for opening and closing the discharge hole; and a valve driving unit moving the valve using magnetic force so as to cause the valve to open and close the discharge hole. The water tank is opened and closed by the magnetic force of magnets and the restoring force of elastic members, and thus it is possible to prevent water stored in the water tank from leaking out in a process of attaching or detaching the water tank to or from the rear surface of a door or a refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Seok Yoon, Byeong Gyu Kang, Jae Youl Lee
  • Publication number: 20100236273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ice-making device for a refrigerator. The ice-making device of the present invention comprises a water tank detachably installed to a rear surface of a refrigerator door for selectively opening or closing a storage space, first and second ice trays rotatably installed to the rear surface of the door to make ice using water supplied from the water tank, and an ice bank installed to the rear surface of the door to store therein the ice made in the first and second ice trays. According to the present invention, ice can be more simply and easily taken out while minimizing the leakage of cold air circulating in the storage space. Further, ice can be stored in a more sanitary way while minimizing the contamination of the storage space in the process of making ice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Young-Woo Kim, Jae-Youl Lee, Hwal-Kyun Lee, Jong-Seok Yoon, Sang-Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20100231111
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a main body defining a storage chamber, a door opening and closing the storage chamber, and a pivot guide unit connecting the door to the main body and varying a distance between a pivot shaft of the door and the main body in response to a pivot motion of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Sang-Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20100147011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ice-making assembly for a refrigerator and a refrigerator including the same. According to the present invention, a freezing chamber door is provided with an ice-making assembly, and ice made by the ice-making assembly can be immediately drawn out to the outside by opening an exclusively used home-bar door. In addition, an ice-making case is coupled by a coupling means formed integrally with the freezing chamber door and the ice-making case without a coupling tool or operation. Moreover, according to the present invention, if a water bucket is installed to the ice-making case, a water supply hole of the lower end of the water bucket is opened by an opening and closing means, so that water in water bucket is automatically supplied to an ice tray. In addition, an ice-separating lever having a ‘?’ shape is provided to simultaneously rotating a plurality of ice trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Young-Woo Kim, Jae-Youl Lee, Hwal-Kyun Lee, Jong-Seok Yoon, Sang-Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20100117502
    Abstract: The structure for adjusting height of the shelf for the refrigerator according to the embodiment of the present invention is configured to gradually lift and lower the shelf by means of pressing the height adjusting element provided at the lower side of the shelf, and the shelf is preferably prevented from being suddenly dropped while adjusting height of the shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Jeong-Ho Shin, Ki-Hoon Song
  • Publication number: 20100101261
    Abstract: An ice-making device and a refrigerator having the ice-making device are provided. The ice-making device includes an ice-making housing defining a predetermined ice-making space therein, an ice tray rotatably installed in the ice-making space and provided with a plurality of ice-making grooves, and a protruding rib that is formed on the ice tray to prevent water from being splashed out of the ice-making grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2004
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Jong-Seok Yoon, Byeong-Gyu Kang
  • Publication number: 20100101266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator and a drawer opening/closing apparatus for a refrigerator wherein a main drawer and an auxiliary drawer are drawn at the same time or independently, the convenience of use is advantageously improved because it is possible for an user to automatically open the auxiliary drawer without directly opening the auxiliary drawer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Ki-Hoon Song, Jeong-Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 7690586
    Abstract: A deodorizer for a refrigerator is formed of a mesh type material having fine multiple pores through which the air in the refrigerator passes and the material having multiple pleats so as to enlarge a surface area coming in contact with the air, thereby maximizing a surface area coming in contact with the cool air and accordingly, improving deodorizing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Byeong-Gyu Kang
  • Publication number: 20100064721
    Abstract: In order to allow a user to conveniently adjust the elevation of the shelf, simplify the structure not to generate noise, stably maintain the selected position of the shelf, and rapidly and considerably adjusting the elevation of the shelf, the present invention discloses an elevation adjustment apparatus for a shelf in a refrigerator comprises a shaft lengthily provided up and down in the inside of the refrigerator; a shelf moved up and down along the shaft; an operating lever hinged to the shelf and having a through hole through which the shaft penetrates; and an elastic member pushing the operating lever to contact the through hole to the shelf and hook them so that the up and down movement of the shelf is selectively restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong-Ho Shin, Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Jong-Seok Yoon, Ki-Hoon Song
  • Publication number: 20100060125
    Abstract: A height adjusting apparatus of a shelf for a refrigerator in a refrigerator having the shelf on which objects to be stored are placed and which is movable up or down to a certain height, the apparatus comprising: fixing guides formed in parallel with the movement path of the shelf; and operation levers movable along the fixing guides when the shelf is moved upwardly or downwardly, and restricted in the fixing guides to maintain the shelf at a height that the shelf is moved upwardly or downwardly when the shelf is completely moved upwardly or downwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Ki-Hoon Song, Jeong-Ho Shin, Jong-Seok Yoon
  • Publication number: 20100060124
    Abstract: In order to can conveniently operate the elevation of the shelf, move the shelf only by the movement of the shelf without performing the separate work in order to allow the user to move the shelf, and automatically fix the position of the shelf by means of the restoring force of the elastic member after the movement of the shelf is completed, the present invention discloses an elevation adjustment apparatus for a shelf in a refrigerator comprising an engaging guide lengthily formed up and down in the inside of the refrigerator; a shelf movably mounted up and down along the engaging guide; an engaging apparatus rotatably supported on the shelf and re-stricting the downward movement of the shelf by selectively hooking it on any position of the engaging guide by a rotation operation; and a load supporting apparatus supporting the load of the shelf at the position fixing the shelf by the engaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Jae-Youl Lee, Jeong-Ho Shin, Ki-Hoon Song
  • Patent number: 7641707
    Abstract: A refrigerator having an air-cleaner is provided. The refrigerator includes a main body with a predetermined storage space defined therein, and an air-cleaner including a case fixed to the main body and having at least an inlet and outlet, a decor panel that linearly reciprocates to selectively open and close the outlet, a filter device that filters air sucked through the inlet, a blower that sucks air through the inlet and discharges the air filtered in the filter device through the outlet, and an anion generator that generates anions which are discharged along with the air through the outlet. The air-cleaner is securely mounted to the upper surface of the refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byeong-Gyu Kang, Sang-Ho Park, Jin-Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20090249817
    Abstract: A refrigerator, in which a dispensing unit moves between a received position and a dispensing position and a driving unit is configured to move the dispensing unit from the received position to the dispensing position and is configured to move the dispensing unit from the dispensing position to the received position. The refrigerator also includes a state return unit that is configured to detect a force applied to a cover unit when the dispensing unit is oriented in the dispensing position and that is configured to, in response to detecting the force applied to the cover unit, cause the driving unit to move the dispensing unit from the dispensing position to the received position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joo-Won PARK, Il-Wook JOUNG, Byeong-Gyu KANG